Freedom Constraint Quotes

Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not.

Because I'm always with other people, I don't have private times and can't easily do what I really want to do. However, this is not necessarily so bad.

You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.

To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

I don't want to be on the road all my life.

In the midst of the happiness they brought there was always a lurking shadow. The shadow of incompatibility; of the impossibility of being at once bound and free. The garden breeds a longing for the wild; the wild a homesickness for the garden.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear. Security without freedom means slavery. So, each on its own is awful; only together they make for a good life. But, a big "but": being both necessary, complementing each other, they are nevertheless virtually incompatible.

It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

What does this contradictory pattern mean?one conclusion seems inevitable: when it comes to work, people do not heed the evidence of their senses. They disregard the quality of immediate experience, and base their motivation instead on the strongly rooted cultural stereotype of what work is supposed to be like. They think of it as an imposition, a constraint, an infringement of their freedom, and therefore something to be avoided as much as possible.

I don't like feeling like it's not up to me when I'm working and when I'm not. Not feeling complete freedom... that's frustrating.

In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

As long as anything in this world means anything to you, your freedom is only a word. You are like a bird that is held by a leash; you can only fly so far.